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Film festival ‘history in the making’ - The National

Nashwa al Ruwaini, the festival’s director, said its success was “beyond our imaginations”.

“We have a film fund, a film commission, a research circle and a film institute – and that’s not to mention all the other private investments that are going on. This is truly history in the making.”


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Rome Film Festival to push tax benefits - Hollywood Reporter

The initiative, sponsored by the Rome and Lazio Film Commission and cinema associations API and ANICA, will include access to expert advisors who will be


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Lone Pine on location - Los Angeles Times

Watch the video to see some of the exact locations. It's the legacy of these works that the Lone Pine Film Festival (Oct 10-12) hopes to preserve.


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Show that you love local films - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com

"It is hugely encouraging that this is, in part, an initiative of the Louisiana Film Office and the Lt. Governor's Office in Baton Rouge, " Duffey said.


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Oakland International Film Festival begins Thursday - San Jose Mercury News

“Boys are born but men are made” is the subtitle of “Equinox,” a film that’s an Oakland product. That makes the two-hour film by Baayan Bakari appropriate as the opening feature for the Oakland International Film Festival that begins Thursday and runs until Oct. 16.


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Busan, Sapporo sign MoU on film collaboration - Screendaily.com (subscription)

The Korean city of Busan and Japanese city Sapporo have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on film production, distribution and training programmes within the film industry in each city.


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Pusan festival assesses Hollywood - Variety

Hollywood’s dominance of global cinema screens came in for plenty of bashing Saturday at the first running of the Asia Film Policy Forum. But the confab in Pusan was also the setting for a well-attended and pragmatic seminar on how to …


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Film commission seminar urges more incentives - Hollywood Reporter

Oct 4, 2008 | expert Bill Bowling's advice Saturday to a gathering of film commission representatives and government officials from across the Asia-Pacific region.


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Asheville contingent in the spotlight at Montana festival - Mountain Xpress


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Taipei promotes local film industry - Taipei Times

Taipei City’s Cultural Affairs Department (CAD), which established a film commission in January to encourage cooperation with the film industry,


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Reel Jersey Film Festival Part Dieux

Reel Jersey Film Festival Part Dieux | Film Festival Gems

Saturday September 27 was a sort of dreary day weather-wise, so it was a perfect day for trying to pack in seeing as many film festival films as possible.

I managed to see four films on Saturday at the Reel Jersey Film Festival (in the order I saw them):


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Reel Jersey Film Festival: WeirdNJ Party / Midnight Movie: The Blood Shed

Reel Jersey Film Festival: WeirdNJ Party / Midnight Movie: The Blood Shed

I got to the party at Williams Center in Rutherford, NJ around 10:30 pm; fortunately, there was still plenty of “Joisey-cuisine” - icy cold Busch beer and White Castle burgers left to drink and eat!

While The Coffin Daggers got ready for their set, the screen in the grand old Rivoli Theater played scenes from a very diverse variety of b-movie horror and soft-core 60’s nudie flicks (just like a midnite movie ;) At around 11:15pm The Coffin Daggers played an excellent set of hard-driving and loud surf rock instrumentals, to a horror muxvid loop playing above them, after which the overweight drag couple in matching Bo-Peep-hybrid outfits (I didn’t see any shepherd’s canes ;) …or sheep, for that matter, but maybe that’s a good thing! ;) … or maybe they were sposed to be the twins from The Shining? …dunno… ) joined Mark and Mark from WeirdNJ onstage for the raffle drawing. I didn’t win - oh well…

The cast from The Blood Shed took the stage, Mark introduced the film and we were all off and running! (to the comfort of ulphostered theater lounge seats in the Rivoli, that is…)

The Blood Shed is classic Alan Rowe Kelly fare falling somewhere btn the b-movie flicks, John Waters, John Carpenter and Hammer Films (all of who I am sure must be influences for Alan); toss in Alan’s own Jersey je nais se qua… ;) Alan, of course, plays one of the lead characters, the burly “child”, Beeftina Bullion as well as having directed and produced. The whole thing’s just a mad, gory hoot!

I didn’t get a chance to speak with Alan, tho I hope to sometime this weekend at the festival. I did have the wonderful opportunity to meet Alan several years ago at the premiere of I’ll Bury You Tomorrow at the Darress Theater in Boonton, NJ.

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Pusan Int'l Film Festival - Hollywood Reporter

"The commission could help by developing broad investment channels," says Kang Han-seop, chairman of the Korean Film Commission.


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Local filmmaker will show work at festival - Colts Neck News Transcript

“I just love shooting films in New Jersey. I always try to film here since you have so much control over the location. In New York you have to deal with hassles like parking and unwanted noise. I’ve used Point Pleasant, Brick, and even George Washington’s old house in Morristown as locations for filming,” Valenti said.


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HKIFF names Soo Wei Shaw exec director - Hollywood Reporter

Shaw, who has worked for the Singapore Film Commission and as a media consultant and briefly as a branding and marketing specialist for the Hong Kong office


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American Cinematic Experience (ACE) Film Festival

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Reel Jersey Film Festival

Reel Jersey Film Festival: September 25-29, 2008

“The Bergen County Film Commission, in association with the Fort Lee Film Commission, presents:


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Havana Film Festival New York

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Colombian Film Commission

Colombia Film Commission (Comision Filmica Colombiana)

The Colombian Film Commission is eager to facilitate the support large and small crews need to successfully bring any project to life.


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Rhode Island International Film Festival

Rhode Island International Film Festival

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Staten Island Film Festival

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Subway Cinema

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Long Island International Film Expo 2008

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